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=== '''Tropes include the following:''' ===
* [[Animesque]]: The "Little Wendy Tales" sketches. Pokes fun at ''[[
* [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]] - Chicken Jane.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] - Leona, dressed as a doctor, in "Clickety-Clack, Clickety-Clack!," looks at the camera, saying "Oh, no! You know what we need... a miracle!"
* [[Call
* [[Captain Obvious]]: Cliff Hanger's theme.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Parodied, lampshaded, played straight ''and'' taken literally all at the same time. "Cliff Hanger" [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Dick and Jane]] - "Chicken Jane" series of sketches. Parodied to no end.
* [[Edutainment Show]]
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* [[Punctuated for Emphasis]] - Cliff Hanger's "Can't. Hold. On. Much. LONGER!!!"
* [[Punny Name]]: Cliff Hanger.
* [["Reading Is Cool" Aesop]]: This was essentially what the seies was trying to promote, though it also focused on the basics of learning to read.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: The title is not only a pun on "between the lines", but it also refers to the fact that {{spoiler|there are lion statues near the entrance of the library, which you must walk ''between'' to enter}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Take a Third Option]] - In "Bobby the Hopping Robot," Theo is sure that either he or the toy robot must be defective because he can't make it work, but Leona calls the help number and finds out that it's actually the instructions that are wrong.
* [[Title Theme Tune]]: "Between the Lions, between the covers of a book, it's time to look Between the Lions!"
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